High-end manufacturers often host PDF excerpts of stereoplay rankings that feature their products, such as this archived ranking list . 3. Key Categories in the "Bestenliste"
Then, at 2:00 AM on a Tuesday, deep in the thirteenth page of Google results, he found it.
It wasn't a sleek cloud storage link. It was an old, Geocities-era FTP directory buried inside a defunct university server in Heidelberg. The filename glowed like a jewel: Stereoplay_Bestenliste_1993_Complete.pdf .
For speakers, pay attention to the letters in parentheses (e.g., A, B, C). These indicate the ideal room placement found during testing.
The rankings are divided into high-fidelity categories, each assigned a point-based score to indicate sound quality and overall performance: Loudspeakers